Sentence examples for close to minor from inspiring English sources

Angels report: Joe Smith close to minor league rehab stint.

It's not as easy as flashing your Ann Summers thong outside the launch of a new nightclub or having a "friend" tell the papers you've "got close to" a minor character on TOWIE.

This may indicate the localization of NLRP3 in or close to a minor fragile site, although we identified no pathological rearrangements in our series.

The GZ1101 was close to the minor branch with prototype VR-2332 and BJ-4.

A texture CG (PL2) and a CI resistance CG (Unk23) mapped close to the minor bleeding QTL peak at the top end of G1.

Although HFE is close to a minor peak (LOD score 0.89 at D6S2439, at 24.4 Mb, less than 2 Mb from HFE), none of the candidate genes are situated in genomic regions with LOD scores above 1.0 in our linkage analysis.

Close to 14,000 minors, twice as many as the previous year, were placed in federal custody.

Sparklehorse, the opening band, worked close to the minor-key folk-rock territory of R.E.M. and Neil Young.

The Mets and the right-hander Elmer Dessens were close to completing a minor league contract.

Fibres passing close to the labial minor salivary gland mass were seen to travel towards the superficial aspect of the lip, terminating in the dermis.

Hyun-Jin Ryu is also close to starting a minor league rehabilitation assignment, Manager Don Mattingly said.